On Sat 02 Oct 2021 at 07:10:58 (+0000), Nils wrote: > Well, still... The thing is, that games that run flawlessly on Windows XP > have like 1 FPS on Debian. > So... It **does** have the ability to run these games.
Should we be surprised that a laptop from 2004 works well with a contemporary Windows OS—so did my Travelmate from the same year. But as each version of Debian is released, I have to retweak things to get X to run reliably. However, I can still browse (slowly) on buster, and it plays videos reasonably smoothly unless their resolution exceeds the screen's. I get the impression it runs faster on jessie, so smoother videos, but I wouldn't consider opening a browser. It's a modest 1.50GHz Pentium with 500MB memory with 64MB video memory. In Wheezy, I needed Option "AGPFastWrite" "no" in xorg.conf, but in buster I get by with nomodeset in the kernel line. Obviously I only run a WM, not a DE. It would be a pleasant surprise if someone in Debian or the kernel team took an interest in what tweaks to make, perhaps by chance still running a similar video card (mine being an ATI Radeon Mobility: 0x4e50). > >Nils composed on 2021-09-29 03:27 (UTC): > > > >> I got a laptop from 2004, Intel Xtreme graphics inside. > >> Everything works fine, except 3D and even 2D acceleration. These seem to > >> run fully on software even tho glxinfo claims opengl availability? > > > >> Here are the specs: > >> - Intel Celeron (2.6 GHz, single-core) > >> - 15" TFT (XGA 1024x768) > >> - 1 GB of RAM > >> - Intel Xtreme Graphics up to 64 MB, On demand ... Cheers, David.